Ayaan Hirsi Ali on why the Iranian regime needs to be ‘brought down'
Author Ayaan Hirsi Ali says the Iranian regime is committed to expanding 'terror' beyond its borders.
One ballistic missile has been fired into Israel from Iran after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to a bilateral ceasefire.
'The reason why it is really important, in my view, to bring this particular regime down is because it is explicitly committed to exporting the Islamic revolution beyond Iran's borders,' Ms Hirsi Ali told Sky News host Peta Credlin.
'At this very moment, it is weak, and I think we have been doing for many decades ... a half-done job.'
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